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๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ”ฌโš—๏ธ Wissenschaft ist bunt ๐ŸŒˆ Unter diesem Motto macht die Mitmach-Ausstellung INSPIRATA seit 2008 Lust auf Naturwissenschaften. Jetzt wird sie mit Fรถrdermitteln vom Bund zum Science Center weiterentwickelt und um eine Experimentierwerkstatt, Lehr- und Lernlabore uvm. erweitert.


Linux Patch Posted Confirms: Rust Experiment Is Done, Rust Is Here To Stay

Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to "conclude the Rust experiment". The "experiment" of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it's now accepted to be a success and "Rust is here to stay" in the kernel...
phoronix.com/news/Rust-To-Stayโ€ฆ



Gods rest ye

If only that were what it's all about
Communal fire, warm and glowing
Cooking up feast enough to
fill our bellies and larders
for wintry weeks to come;
Exchanging gifts our separate
crafts empower
with wishes of good will,
good cheer, inebriating spirits
raised and quaffed against
chill fear of dark;
If only peace and sensitive portrayal
of the gift of human frailty
were the point and purpose of
a season,
voices pitched to harmonize
for beauty's sake;
If only we could reach into
legendsโ€™ epiphany,
reach out in simple empathy,
if only we could simply be
merry.

December 12, 2007



Seizure of rogue oil tanker off Venezuela signals new U.S. crackdown on shadow fleet
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/seizure-of-rogue-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-signals-new-u-s-crackdown-on-shadow-fleet?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-PBSNewsHour



Searchlight: **Teenagers accused of plotting racist terror attacks**

searchlightmagazine.com/2025/1โ€ฆ

Two teenagers from Cardiff, Rhys Edwards and Talan Vincent, both aged 18, have been charged with preparation of acts of terrorism against Muslim and Jewish targets. The charges cover the period between 1 October and 16 November 2025. Prosecutors allege that during this time the pair researched and visited attack locations and



Called my insurance company to protest a charge. About 20 minutes in she reveals that my policy was terminated at the end of the month. I never got a notice. Had I not decided to call (I almost didnโ€™t) I would have gone into the new year totally uncovered. Scary.
in reply to The Lady (La Donna)

Right? Iโ€™m still kinda freaked about it. Iโ€™ve had nightmares about being uninsured for one very unlucky day.


AMINA Bank Integrates Ripple Payments to Facilitate Cross-Border Stablecoin Transactions byteseu.com/1622546/ #acquisition #AMINABank #CrossBorderPayments #Crypto #CryptoCurrency #integration #News #PYMNTSNews #RipplePayments #stablecoin #What'sHot


A woman entered the pharmacy, approached the pharmacist, made direct eye contact, and began to speak.

"I would like to buy some cyanide."

The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"

The lady: "I need it to poison my husband."

The pharmacist's eyes got big and he exclaimed: "Lord have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! I'll lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen.

in reply to Neugin

Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"

The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.

The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied: "Oh, now That's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription."



RE: mastodon.online/@cohanf/115708โ€ฆ

I really like the colours in your photo and the way the horizontal and vertical lines play off each other!


#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12 A nippy afternoon yesterday high of -20C/-4F at the most, with some notable windchill. I did a bit of work outside and got a few photos. Another cold day today, bit warmer tomorrow, mild early week then another cold spell. #winter #Alberta #Canada #weather #sunset #photography #CountryLiving
in reply to Elle Adam ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

thanks :) Unless I leave the acreage and either go down the road allowance or out onto the farm beyond, this is the sort of sunset view I can get..lol



Still waiting for a service capable of generating infographics that correctly spell words *as I have typed them* in the instruction. We are not there yet.


UAH Researcher Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Address the Environmental Challenge of โ€œForever Chemicalsโ€ byteseu.com/1622544/ #environment #Newswise



Two Wisconsin congressional redistricting lawsuits may not resolve by 2026 midterms
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/two-wisconsin-congressional-redistricting-lawsuits-may-not-resolve-by-2026-midterms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-PBSNewsHour



Todays 100+ #billionaires according to #Bloomberg:

#1: Elon Musk - $470B - USA/Tech

#2: Larry Page - $266B - USA/Tech

#3: Jeff Bezos - $249B - USA/Tech

#4: Sergey Brin - $247B - USA/Tech

#5: Larry Ellison - $243B - USA/Tech

#6: Mark Zuckerberg - $228B - USA/Tech

#7: Bernard Arnault - $202B - France/Consumer

#8: Steve Ballmer - $167B - USA/Tech

#9: Jensen Huang - $152B - USA/Tech

#10: Warren Buffett - $150B - USA/Diversified

#11: Michael Dell - $143B - USA/Tech

#12: Jim Walton - $141B - USA/Retail

#13: Rob Walton - $138B - USA/Retail

#14: Alice Walton - $138B - USA/Retail

#15: Amancio Ortega - $134B - Spain/Retail

#16: Bill Gates - $117B - USA/Tech

#17: Carlos Slim - $113B - Mexico/Diversified

#18: Mukesh Ambani - $106B - India/Energy

Top 10: $2.37 Trillion
Total: $3.4 Trillion

Full Top 500: bloomberg.com/billionaires

#noOligarchy #noBillionaires #billionsbot

in reply to billionsbot

Did they really work hard to earn this money? I see that I work very hard in many areas, but I am still very poor; I don't have one hundred euros.
in reply to dalia rezk

@daliarezk
These people - all of them, without exception, are theives and murderers. Humans without humanity. A cancer upon the earth.


Sacred Night

Dancing darkness.
Sparkling stars, promise eternal light.
New days, new dawns, new destinations
open into never seen visions.
Wonder creates, gracefully navigates
through veils each cast away.
Luminous color array.
Lightning aurora
bursting through.

Breath, piney memories.
Crackling branches signify fireโ€™s
welcome warmth.
Taste todayโ€™s luscious fruit,
synaptically synergized ecclesiastic energy.
Learning again and beyond and ever
peace, sacred peace.

Emotive gesture.
Barriers denote sacred place
imagined into form, into visions, into life.
Magickal fluids immersed in ether
grow soul in ceremony
of give and take,
the awareness of love.

I sing my sacred song along emergent
lines, twining elemental splendour.
From the depth of antiquity,
the breadth of possibility,
the chemical equation
of air, light, vibration,
peace, love, joy
to all of Earth and beyond.

Blessed Be



UK targets pro-Kremlin influence machine with sweeping sanctions on Dugin, Rybar, and Pravfond byteseu.com/1622542/ #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom



Mastodon / Fediverse question.

Home, Local, and Global (Federated) Timelines. Did those options disappear?

On the desktop version of Mastodon, there used to be (as of 2 days ago) a menu item, "Live Feeds," to choose which feed to browse. Now it's not there.

(If anyone knows a pertinent hashtag for this question, please put it in a comment. Thanks.) #FediTips @FediTips

This entry was edited (1 week ago)
in reply to Don Ray

Guessing... see if this sheds any light on your question๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I often peruse Mastodons Github issues when I run into interface problems...

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pโ€ฆ

in reply to lfisk

@lfisk

Yes, I think that conversation is describing the way it was before the Live Feeds link disappeared from the menu. I have contacted the admin of mastodon.online. It could be something the Mastodon developers did (accidentally or on purpose????).

in reply to Don Ray

Found mention of a new server setting too, that an Administrator might use๐Ÿค”

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pโ€ฆ

in reply to lfisk

@lfisk
Yeah, the first issue is from 2023 and was just bringing in the "Live Feeds" option.

I'm not sure whether the second link is related.

Either way, it's something the mastodon.online admins would know.

in reply to Don Ray

Hereโ€™s the response from the admin:

โ€œWe are actually planning to disable the "live feeds" functionality on both mastodon.social and mastodon.online as it generally provides a poor method of discovering good posts and often has a lot of spam. (It's a new feature so we're testing it at the moment on mastodon.online.)โ€

My comment would be: Itโ€™s interesting to say that removing something is a โ€œnew feature.โ€

in reply to Don Ray

Thanks for passing that on, interesting!

To be fair, mastodon.social is way way too large, not surprised that they find these features unmanageable ๐Ÿ˜ฆ The live feeds are designed for a decentralised network where people are spread out on lots of reasonably sized servers rather than a supergiant.

Hopefully this is just an option for an admin to switch them off if they want to rather than remove them from every server.

This entry was edited (1 week ago)
in reply to Fedi.Tips ๐ŸŽ„

Iโ€™m thinking that this will motivate me to go to a smaller server.

Hereโ€™s the other part of the email (I ran out of characters before):

โ€œWe do have the ability to opt people back into it, but we would like to understand how people still use it if they do need access to it again.โ€

in reply to Fedi.Tips ๐ŸŽ„

Thanks. Iโ€™d like to avoid a disaster๐Ÿ™‚

Iโ€™m looking at servers now.



Travel experts reveal the best value skiing holidays across Europe for UK holidaymakers byteseu.com/1622540/ #GreatBritain #UnitedKingdom
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